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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2022-0472 Important Aide Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant security patch for aide in Red Hat Enterprise Linux tackling a heap-based buffer overflow flaw.
An update for aide is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) is a utility that creates a database of files on the system, and then uses that database to ensure file integrity and detect system intrusions.
Security Fix(es):
* aide: heap-based buffer overflow on outputs larger than B64_BUF (CVE-2021-45417)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory aide security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact Important heap-based buffer overflow

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45417 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS):
Source: aide-0.14-11.el6_10.1.src.rpm
i386: aide-0.14-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm aide-debuginfo-0.14-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm
s390x: aide-0.14-11.el6_10.1.s390x.rpm aide-debuginfo-0.14-11.el6_10.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: aide-0.14-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm aide-debuginfo-0.14-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0472-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0472
Issue date: 2022-02-08

Topic

An update for aide is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ExtendedLifecycle Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory aide security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact Important heap-based buffer overflow

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS) - i386, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2041489 - CVE-2021-45417 aide: heap-based buffer overflow on outputs larger than B64_BUF

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